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  • 1
    Book
    Book
    London : Bloomsbury Academic
    ISBN: 978-0-755-63413-2 , 978-0-755-63412-5 , 978-0-755-63411-8 , 978-0-755-63410-1
    Language: English
    Pages: VIII, 271 Seiten , Illusstrationen
    Keywords: Indien Wald ; Baum ; Raum ; Identität ; Nationalität ; Nation ; Literatur ; Schriftsteller ; Gesellschaft, moderne
    Abstract: As they seek to explore evolving and conflicting ideas of nationhood and modernity, India's writers have often chosen forests as the dramatic setting for stories of national identity. India's Forests, Real and Imagined explores how these settings have been integral to India sense of national consciousness. Alan Johnson demonstrates that modern writers have drawn on older Indian literary traditions of the forest as a place of exile, trial and danger to shape new ideas of India as a modern nation. The book casts new light on a wide range of modern writers, from Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay - widely regarded as the first Indian novelist - to contemporary authors such as Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie and Jhumpa Lahiri as well as local attitudes to nationhood and the environment across the country.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 235-256
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  • 2
    ISBN: 978-1-350-28230-8 / (hbk) , 9781350282346 / (softback) , 978-1-350-28231-5 / (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff) , 978-1-350-28232-2 / (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 229 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First edition
    Series Statement: Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion
    Keywords: Nigeria Pentecost ; Beziehungen, interreligiös ; Beziehungen Christentum-Islam ; Christentum ; Religion ; Abuja 〈Nigeria〉
    Abstract: Grounded in anthropological comparison and the concept of materiality, this book offers an in-depth ethnographic study of the similarities and differences among various forms of religious practices in a Pentecostal Church (Christ Embassy) and an Islamic group (NASFAT) in the Nigerian capital of Abuja.Scholarship in this area tends to focus on inter-religious contestations and conflicts; however, this book proposes that another dynamic is unfolding between Christians and Muslims that is characterised by conviviality, interfaith joint action programmes, mutual influences and even the exchange of religious forms. The comparative approach reveals that, notwithstanding the seemingly opposed worldviews and divergences between Muslims and Christians, they all face similar challenges and apply similar techniques for meeting the challenges posed by the precarious Nigerian urban environment. It is through practices - especially those conducted in (semi-) public settings - that people from different religious persuasions define, encroach on and feel the weight of each other's presence.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 213-224
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  • 3
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    Book
    London : Bloomsbury Academic
    ISBN: 978-1-350-22740-8 (hb) , 978-1-350-22741-5 (eBook) , 978-1-350-22742-2 (ePDF)
    Language: English
    Pages: xix, 261 Seiten
    Series Statement: World Cinema Series
    Keywords: Äthiopien Film ; Massenmedien ; Geschichte ; Liebe ; Anthropologie, visuelle
    Abstract: This book shines much-needed light on the history, structures and films of the Amharic film industry in Ethiopia. Focusing on the rise of the industry from 2002, until today, and embedded in archival, ethnographic and textual research methods, this book offers a sustained and detailed appreciation of Amharic-language cinema. Michael Thomas considers 'fiker'/love as an organising principle in national Ethiopian culture and, by extension, Amharic cinema. Placing 'fiker' as central to understanding Amharic film genres also illuminates the continuous negotiations at play between romantic, familial, patriotic and spiritual notions of love in these films.Thomas considers the production and exhibition of films in Ethiopia, charting fluctuations and continuities between the past and the present. Having done so, he offers detailed textual readings of films, identifying important junctures in the industry's development and the emergence of new genres. The findings of the book detail the affective characteristics that delineate most Amharic genres and the role culturally specific concepts, such as fiker, play in maintaining the relevance of commercial cinemas reliant on domestic audiences. (Verlagangabe)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- Introduction: Courting and the Curiosity of Cinema in Addis Ababa -- Part 1. The History -- 1. Film Exhibition in Ethiopia -- 2. Film Production in Ethiopia -- Part 2. The Films -- 3. The "yefiker film/love film" -- 4. The Rise of the "assikiñ yefiker film/humorous love film" -- 5. Violence and Order in the "lib anteltay film/suspense film" -- 6. The Absence of Romance and the "yebeteseb film/family film" -- Part 3. The Industry -- 7. Promoting Amharic Film Genres --8. Producing Amharic Film Genres -- 9. Perceiving Amharic Film Genres -- Conclusion: Of fiker and Film --Bibliography
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 232-246, Filmographie: Seite 247-256
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  • 4
    ISBN: 978-1-350-06289-4 , 978-1-350-06291-7 / (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff) , 978-1-350-06290-0
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 268 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place
    Keywords: Landschaft Geographie ; Christentum ; Natur ; Sakraler Ort ; Religion ; Beziehungen Mensch-Umwelt ; Beziehungen Natur-Kultur ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Landschaftsformen ; Religionsethnologie
    Abstract: How do Christians make relationships with land central to their faith? How have the realities of materiality, geography, and ecology shaped Christian territories of belonging and theologies of territory? What social-economic-political conditions surround exchanges between religion and nature?This book explores how Christianity intersects with nature to create unique religious landscapes. Case studies range from the Mormon Trail across the USA completed by thousands every year, to the Catholic devotional cult of and shrine to St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina. Contributors examine the entangled forms of agency between nature and culture that are at work as Christians produce, consume, experience, imagine, inhabit, manage, and struggle over formations of land.Focusing on Christian engagements with land forms in the early 21st century, this book advances the spatial turn in the study of religion, contributes to the anthropology of religion and the study of global Christianities, as well as our understanding of the relationship between Christianity, space and place.
    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Foreword -- Introduction: Landscape Processes in the Making of Christianities -- Part I: Destinations -- Chapter 1: Galactic shrines and the Catholic Cult of St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina -- Chapter 2: Sacralizing the Landscape: Water and the Development of a Pilgrimage Shrine -- Chapter 3: Crucifix and Dirt: Catholic and Indigenous Origins of the Holy Earth of the Santuario de Chimayó -- Chapter 4: Captivating Landscapes: Gender and Religion in Mormon Captivity Narratives -- Part II: Part Two Temporalities -- Chapter 5: From the Messiah's Glade to the Gods' Mountains: Christian Landscapes of Africa and Asia -- Chapter 6: Geography as Eschatology: Moral Freedom and Prophecy Fulfillment on Land and at Sea -- Chapter 7: Imagining an Ethnic Ecumene: Evangelical Landscapes as Gentile, Jewish, and Native in the American South -- Part III: Transformations -- Chapter 8: Landscape as Expressive Resource in Materializing the Bible -- Chapter 9: When Mountains Move: Athonite Processions, Sacred Performance, and Overlapping Topographies -- Chapter 10: The Garden of Eden in an Era of Over-Tourism: (Managing) New Testament Sacred Groves in the Holy Land -- Afterword: On Placing and Displacing in Christianity -- The Work That Landscape Does: On Placing and Displacing in Christianity -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 238-264
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  • 5
    ISBN: 978-07556-2214-6 , 978-0-7556-2213-9 , 0755622146 , 978-0-7556-2216-0 (e-PDF) , 978-0-7556-2215-3 (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: 199 Seiten
    Series Statement: Peace, Society and the State in Africa
    Keywords: Südsudan Bürgerkrieg ; Nationenbildung ; Geschichte
    Abstract: For over fifty years, the people of South Sudan fought for the right to be citizens of an independent nation-state. When this goal was finally achieved, however, it quickly became evident that the South Sudanese nation was not nearly as cohesive as hoped. The result has been a catastrophic civil war. Spanning South Sudan's nation-building struggle from its inception up until the current civil war, this book challenges the notion that the continued violence of this process can be reduced to either identity difference or the fault of individual leaders. Rather, it uses the leadership process to understand the complex progressions and relationships that have characterised South Sudan's nation-building trajectory. The book argues that the core driving force behind the current conflict in South Sudan can be found not in ethnicity, the "resource curse" or power struggle, but in a set of destructive relationships that have fueled violence and oppression in the country for the better part of a century. This cyclical leadership process has entrapped the country in an increasingly destructive and contradictory nation-building process that continues to spiral and disintegrate.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- PART ONE: Origins: The Southern Sudan as People, Polity and "Problem" (c. 1821-1983) -- Conquest -- and Colonisation -- Independence -- and Rebellion -- PART TWO: The War Continues: The Fight for Nation and State (1983 -- 2002) -- War and New -- Leadership -- Inner -- Turmoil -- PART THREE: Independence and Civil War: Building a State, Forgetting a Nation (2002 -- 2015) -- Negotiating -- and Implementing Peace -- Freedom, -- Fragility and Fragmentation -- Conclusion
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  • 6
    ISBN: 978-1-350-15212-0 , 978-1-350-15260-1 / (e-book) , 978-1-350-15213-7 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: VI, 229 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place
    Keywords: Afrika Religion ; Kirche ; Urbanisation ; Stadtforschung, ethnologische ; Entwicklung ; Ungleichheit ; Integration ; Religion und Gesellschaft ; Stadt ; Mega-City
    Abstract: How do urbanization and development intersect with religious dynamics to shape contemporary African cityscapes? To answer this timely question, contributors from across Europe, North America and Africa are brought together to explore mega-cities including Lagos, Cape Town, Dar es Salaam and Kinshasa as powerful venues for the creation and implementation of religious models of urbanization and development. This book interrogates how religious socio-spatial models and strategies engage with challenges of infrastructural development, urban social cohesion, inequalities and inclusion. Chapters explore how faith-based practices of urban and infrastructural development link moral subjectivities with individual and wider aspirations for modernization, change, deliverance and prosperity. The volume brings together ethnographically rich and theoretically grounded case studies of religious urbanization across the African continent. It advances discussions of the ambivalent role of urban religion in development and documents the complex, multifaceted socio-cultural and political dynamics associated with religious urbanization in Africa
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction, David Garbin (University of Kent, UK), Simon Coleman (University of Toronto, Canada) and Gareth Millington (University of York, UK) --Part I: Religious Infrastructures of 'Development': Visions, Discourses and Scales --2. Thickening Agents: Muslim Commons and Trajectories of Popular Urbanization in Dar es Salaam, Benjamin Kirby (University of Leeds, UK)--3. Territorialized Visions of Development and Urban Christianities in the Congo, David Garbin (University of Kent, UK) and Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot (GCRL/CNRS, France) --4. The Aspiration to Transform: Pentecostalism and Urban Citizenship in Cape Town, Marian Burchardt (University of Leipzig, Germany) --Part II: Territorialisation, urban change and religious time-spaces --5. Mouride Imaginaries of the Sacred and the Time-Spaces of Religious Urbanisation in Touba, Senegal, Kate Kingsbury (University of British Columbia, Canada) --6. Building Churches for the City-to-Come: Pentecostal Urbanization and Aspirational Place-Making in 'Rurban' Areas of Southwestern Benin, Carla Bertin (EHESS, France) --7. Religion, Urban Change and Planning Control in Lagos, Taibat Lawanson (University Lagos, Nigeria) and Gareth Millington (University of York, UK) --Part III: Moral subjects, Remoralised Spaces and the Politics of Knowledge --8. The Dark Side of the City: Urbanisation, Modernity and Moral Mapping in Zambia, Johanneke Kroesbergen-Kamps (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) --9.Religiously-Motivated Schools and Universities as 'Moral Enclaves': Reforming Urban Youths in Tanzania and Nigeria, Hansjörg Dilger (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) and Marloes Janson (SOAS, University of London, UK) --10. Managing the 'Sensible Secular': Disciplining the Urban in a Nigerian Christian University, Simon Coleman (University of Toronto, Canada) and Xavier Moyet (University of Toronto, Canada) --11. Notes on African Religious Everyday Life in an Urban (Post-)Pandemic World, David Garbin (University of Kent, UK), Simon Coleman (University of Toronto, Canada) and Gareth Millington (University of York, UK) --Afterword, Caroline Knowles (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 201-225
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  • 7
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    Book
    London : Bloomsbury Academic
    ISBN: 978-1-350-23369-0 , 978-1-350-23370-6 , 978-1-350-23373-7 / (e-book) , 978-1-350-23371-3 / (e-book) , 978-1-350-23372-0
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 327 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Islam Muslime ; Digitale Medien ; Internet ; Soziale Medien ; Massenmedien ; Massenkommunikation ; Religion
    Abstract: Written by the leading scholars in digital Islam, this book provides detailed case studies that explore the vibrant digital expressions of diverse groups of Muslim cybernauts: religious clerics and Sufi mystics, feminists and fashionistas, artists and activists, Hajj pilgrims and celebrities. Together, these stories span a vast cultural and geographic landscape, including Indonesia, Iran, the Middle East, and the United States. These case studies are contextualized within the backdrop of broader social trends, including racism and Islamophobia, gender dynamics, celebrity culture, identity politics, and the shifting dynamics of contemporary religious piety and practice. Authors examine a wide-range of digital multimedia technologies as primary ''texts." These include websites, podcasts, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube channels, online magazines and discussion forums, and religious apps. The book's contributors draw on the methodological and theoretical models of multiple academic disciplines, including Religious Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Global Studies, Communication and Media Studies, Religious Studies, and Islamic Studies.
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  • 8
    ISBN: 978-1-350-22817-7 / (hbk.) , 978-1-350-22820-7 / (softback) , 978-1-350-22818-4 / (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff) , 978-1-350-22819-1 / (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 245 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: New Directions in the Anthropology of Christianity
    Keywords: Kirche Katholik ; Massenmedien ; Religion
    Abstract: This book focuses on the ethnographic study of Catholicism and media. Chapters demonstrate how people engage with the Catholic media-scape, and analyse the social, cultural, and political processes that underlie Catholic media and mediatization.Case studies examine Catholic practices in North America, Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America, South-East Asia, and Africa, providing a truly comparative, de-centred representation of global Catholicism.Illustrating the vibrancy and heterogeneity of Catholicism world-wide, the book also examines how media work to sustain larger global Catholic imaginaries.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction: Locating Global Catholic Media / Marc Loustau (College of the Holy Cross, USA), Kristin Norget (McGill University, Canada), and Eric Hoenes del Pinal (University of North Carolina, USA) -- Part I: Mediating Catholic Communities. 2. "Our Radio Maria:" Intimacy and Family in the Radio Maria Network / Marc Loustau (College of the Holy Cross, USA) ; 3. FM Radio and the Perils of an Uncertain Public among Q'eqchi'-Maya Catholics in Guatemala / Eric Hoenes del Pinal (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA) ; 4. Catholicism And Media Use in Central Africa: A Comparative Study of Two Catholic Dioceses in Cameroon & Chad / Ludovic Lado (Center for Research and Action for Peace, Institute of Human Dignity and Rights, Ivory Coast) ; 5. The Mediatization of Suffering among Roman Catholics in Southeast Asia / Julius Bautista (Kyoto University, Japan) ; 6. NFP Online: The Porous Religious Spaces of Social Media / Katherine Dugan (Springfield College, USA) -- Part II: Mediations and Mediatizations. 7. Displaying Catholicism: Mediating Catholicism in Modern Museums / Elayne Oliphant (New York University, USA) ; 8. Toward a Theopolitics of Relics / Valentina Napolitano (University of Toronto, Canada) ; 9. The Señor de los Milagros: Politics, Media and Miracle-making in Peru / Kristin Norget (McGill University, Canada) ; 10. Love/love: The Global Aspirations of U.S. Catholicism / Hillary Kaell (Concordia University, Canada) ; 11. Exorcism in the Media / Thomas J. Csordas (University of California, San Diego, USA) -- Part III: Old Wine in New Skins: Reflections of the Future(s) of Global Catholic Media. 12. Title TBD / Rafael Sánchez (The Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland) -- Bibliography -- Index
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  • 9
    ISBN: 978-1-350-29544-5 , 978-1-350-29546-9 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 222 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Bloomsbury Advances in Religions Studies
    Keywords: Afrika Heiler ; Hexerei ; Exorzismus ; Kriegsführung ; Heilbehandlung ; Krankheit ; Pentecost ; Befreiungstheologie ; Christentum ; Islam ; Religion und Gesellschaft
    Abstract: Based on ethnographic studies conducted in several African countries, this volume analyses the phenomenon of deliverance - which is promoted both in charismatic churches and in Islam as a weapon against witchcraft - in order to clarify the political dimensions of spiritual warfare in contemporary African societies.Deliverance from evil is part and parcel of the contemporary discourse on the struggle against witchcraft in most African contexts. However, contributors show how its importance extends beyond this, highlighting a pluralism of approaches to deliverance in geographically distant religious movements, which coexist in Africa. Against this background, the book reflects on the responsibilities of Pentecostal deliverance politics within the condition of 'epistemic anxiety' of contemporary African societies - to shed light on complex relational dimensions in which individual deliverance is part of a wider social and spiritual struggle.Spanning across the study of religion, healing and politics, this book contributes to ongoing debates about witchcraft and deliverance in Africa.
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I Deliverance and spiritual insecurity -- 1 Battling Satan's minions: Christian-Muslim entanglements in an age of spiritual insecurity -- 2 Deliverance centres, spiritual insecurity, and a pragmatic approach to healing in Ugandan Pentecostalism -- 3 Everyday deliverances in Tanzania -- Part II Charismatic healing in the markets of well-being -- 4 Kapopo, the 'incurable illness': Structural violence, social suffering and spiritual healers in the Democratic Republic of Congo -- 5 Resisting deliverance: Majini spirits, matriliny and religious change in northern Mozambique -- 6 Churches against hospitals?: Deliverance and healers in the field of public health -- Part III Healing and social change -- 7 Healers versus Prayer Teams: Contesting deliverance and healing among Ugandan charismatic Catholics -- 8 Staking out God's Kingdom: Moral geographies, land and healing in Southern African charismatic Christian farming -- 9 Possessed by the post-socialist zeitgeist: History, spirits and the problem of generational (dis)continuity in an Ethiopian Orthodox exorcism -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Copyright.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 190-213
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  • 10
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    Book
    London : Bloomsbury Academic
    ISBN: 978-1-350-18250-9/(hbk.) , 978-1-350-18252-3/(ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff) , 978-1-350-18251-6/(ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: 186 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First edition
    Series Statement: Bloomsbury Advances in Religions Studies
    Keywords: England Religion ; Religion und Gesellschaft ; Individualisierung ; Individuum und Gesellschaft ; Identität ; Religiöse Institution ; Religionssoziologie ; Gemeinschaft ; Religionsethnologie ; Hebden Bridge 〈Stadt, England〉
    Abstract: "Drawing on ethnographic research, this book explores individualized religion in and around Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire. Claire Wanless demonstrates that counter to the claims of secularization theorists, the combination of informal structures and practices can provide a viable basis for socially significant religious activity that can sustain itself. The subjects of this research claim a variety of religious identities and practices, and are suspicious of religious institutions, hierarchies, rules and dogmas. Yet they participate actively in an overlapping and cross-linking informal network of practice communities and other associations. Their engagements propagate and sustain a core ideology that prioritizes subjectivity, locates authority at the level of the individual, and also predicates itself on ideals of sharing, mutuality and community. Providing a new theory of religious association, this book is a counterpoint to the secularization thesis in the UK and points the way to new research on individual religion.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Theorizing religion in the 21st century -- 3. The Upper Calder Valley -- 4. A Diversity of Practice -- 5. The Character of Individualized Religion -- 6. Individuals in Community -- 7. Conclusion
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  • 11
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    London : Bloomsbury Academic
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    ISBN: 978-1-350-13830-8 , 978-1-350-13281-8 , 978-1-350-13282-5/(ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff) , 978-1-350-13283-2/(ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 245 Seiten, 28 ungezählte Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion
    Keywords: Islamische Staaten Islam ; Materielle Kultur ; Rohstoff ; Sachkultur ; Kulturwissenschaft ; Religionsethnologie ; Amulett ; Gebet ; Münze ; Bekleidung ; Schmuck ; Ornament ; Tagungsbericht
    Abstract: "Islam through Objects represents the state of the field of Islamic material cultural studies. With contributions from scholars of religion, anthropologists, art historians, folklorists, historians, and other disciplines, Anna Bigelow brings together a wide range of perspectives on Islamic materiality to debunk myths of Islamic aversion to material aspects of religion. Each chapter focuses on a single object in daily use by Muslims - prayer beads, coins, amulets, a cistern well, clothing, jewellery, bodily and domestic adornments - to consider both generic and particular aspects of the object in question. These narratives will engage the reader by describing and analyzing each object in terms of its provenance, materials, uses, and history, as well as the broader history, variety and uses of the object in Islamic history and cultures. Temporal, regional, and sectarian variations in the styles, uses, and theological perspectives are also considered. Framed by an introduction that assesses the various approaches to Islamic material culture in recent scholarship, Islam through Objects provides a template for the study of religion and material culture, which engages current theory, subtle and nuanced narratives, and the creative and imaginal capacities of Muslims through history"
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES AND PLATES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction: Thinking with Islamic Things -- Objects as orientations -- Authorizing discourses: texts and talks -- What matters? Power and presence -- Sensing sensibilities -- Material Islamic studies -- PART ONE Tracing Images -- CHAPTER ONE Clothes of Righteousness: The MGT Uniform in the Twentieth Century -- History of the Nation of Islam -- Early sartorial practices in the Nation of Islam -- Sister Ethel -- New beginnings of the MGT uniform -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER TWO The Masonic Muhammad: Modern Franco-Iranian Visual Encounters in Prophetic Iconography -- Whence the "Young Muhammad"? -- Interwoven paths: Muhammad among the great men of the world -- From France to Iran: Masonic pathways -- A prophetic peg in the matrix of modernity -- CHAPTER THREE Repetition and Relics: Tracing the Lives of Muhammad's Sandal -- PART TWO Identifying Objects -- CHAPTER FOUR "The Greatest and Only Flag Known:" The Lapel Pin in American Islam -- Prehistories -- The Nation of Islam -- The Five Percenters -- Conclusions -- CHAPTER FIVE Tasbih in West African Islamic History: Spirituality, Aesthetic, Politics, and Identity -- Introduction -- Tasbih and its controversies -- Tasbih in religious reform and colonial discourse -- Tasbih and doctrinal contests -- Tasbih in intra-doctrinal polemics -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER SIX Caps, Heads, and Hearts -- Introduction -- What's in a hat -- Crowns, turbans or four-cornered caps -- Beauty and love in the cap awry -- Modern mentalities -- Conclusion -- PART THREE Objects in Practice -- CHAPTER SEVEN What Comes to Light When a Lamp is Lit in Bektashi Tradition -- The lamp and its absences in Bektashi tradition -- The lamp-lighting rite
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  • 12
    ISBN: 978-1-350-05002-0 (hardback) , 978-1-350-19538-7 (paperback) , 978-1-350-05003-7 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 244 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Suspensions - Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought
    Keywords: Iran Frau und Politik ; Frau und Religion ; Frau und Islam ; Soziale Bedingungen ; HIV ; Prostitution ; Sexualität ; Beziehungen Mann-Frau ; Geschlechterforschung ; Sozialwissenschaft ; Menschenrecht ; Freiheit ; Strafrecht ; Massenmedien ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische ; Teheran
    Abstract: Gender and sexuality in modern Iran is frequently examined through the prism of nationalist symbols and religious discourse from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this book, Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi takes a different approach, by interrogating how normative ideas of women's bodies in state, religious, and public health discourses have resulted in the female body being deemed as immodest and taboo. Through a diverse blend of sources -a popular cultural women's journal, a red-light district, cases studies of temporary marriages, iconic public statues, and an HIV-AIDS advocacy organization in Tehran - this work argues that conceptions of gender and sexuality have been mediated in public discourse and experienced and modified by women themselves over the past thirty years of the Islamic Republic.Expanding upon existing philosophical theory, technological research and scholarship on gender and sexuality in Iran, this book focuses much needed attention on under-studied, marginalized communities, such as widows living with HIV. This work interrogates how bodily technologies are constructed discursively and socially in Iran and the values and perspectives which are incorporated in them. (Umschlagetext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- A note on transliteration -- Introduction -- 1. Reform: an art of visual persuasion -- 2. Red-lights in parks; a social history of Park-e Razi -- 3. Safety valves and postrevolutionary "prostitution" -- 4. Naked modesty and the reformation of statues -- 5. When HIV/AIDS meets government morality -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [207]-233
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  • 13
    ISBN: 978-1-350-05017-4 (print) , 1-350-05017-2 , 978-1-350-05020-4 (ebook) , 978-1-350-05018-1
    Language: English
    Pages: VIII, 183 Seiten , Illulstrationen, Karte
    Series Statement: Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion
    Keywords: Indien Christentum ; Religion ; Materielle Kultur ; Landschaft ; Postkolonialismus ; Beziehungen, interreligiös ; Sakraler Ort ; Shimla 〈Stadt, Indien〉
    Abstract: "This book explores the material religion of contemporary Shimla, a vibrant postcolonial city, famed for its colonial heritage, set against the backdrop of the North-Western Himalayas. Jonathan Miles-Watson demonstrates that this landscape is able to peacefully reconcile the apparent tensions of faith, heritage and identity in a way that unseats traditional theories of religion, politics and heritage. It presents a mystery that is written in space through time; the key to unlocking this mystery lies in clear view, at the city's heart, in the contemporary material religion that surrounds nominally Christian sacred sites. Although the material religion centres on landscapes that are identifiable as Christian, the book demonstrates that Hindus, atheists and Sikhs all have a role to play in the mutually constitutive relations that lie at the centre of these knots of sacred entanglement. This book builds upon over a decade of research to present an ethnographic account of devotional practices that speaks to contemporary developments in both the anthropology of Christianity and material religion. Through this exploration the book answers the mystery of Shimla's postcolonial harmony, while complicating established theories in the anthropology of religion, postcolonial studies, mythography, heritage studies and material culture."--
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface 1. Sita's Red Dress: Introduction -- 2. Christ in the Land of Gods: Context -- 3. Worshiping with Ghosts: The Cathedral on the Ridge -- 4. Materiality, Heterodoxy and Skill: The Hidden Cathedral -- 5. Pipe Organs and Satsang: Inculturation, Enskilment and Conflict -- 6. Entanglements at Jakhoo: Materiality Beyond Pluralism -- 7. Cyberspace and the Formation of Shimla's Sacred Places -- 8. The Salt in the Stew: Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index
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  • 14
    ISBN: 978-1-350-03923-0 , 978-1-350-03924-7
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 467 Seiten
    Keywords: Indien Kultur ; kulturelles Eigentum ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Sprache ; Wirtschaft ; Massenmedien ; Materielle Kultur ; Terminologie ; Lexikon ; Wörterbuch
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  • 15
    ISBN: 978-1-350-13706-6 , 978-1-350-13707-3 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 222 Seiten
    Keywords: Süd-Asien Diaspora ; Frau ; Muslime ; Hindu ; Ernährung ; Eßgewohnheit ; Anthropologie, kulinarische ; Religion und Gesellschaft ; Essen ; Nahrungszubereitung ; Fasten ; Familie
    Abstract: "How do women express individual agency when engaging in seemingly prescribed or approved practices such as religious fasting? How are sectarian identities played out in the performance of food piety? What do food practices tell us about how women negotiate changes in family relationships? This collection offers a variety of distinct perspectives on these questions. Organized thematically, areas explored include the subordination of women, the nature of resistance, boundary making and the construction of identity and community. Methodologically, the essays use imaginative reconstructions of women's experiences, particularly where the only accounts available are written by men. The essays focus on Hindus and Muslims in South Asia, Sri Lankan Buddhist women and South Asians in the diaspora in the US and UK. Pioneering new research into food and gender roles in South Asia, this will be of use to students of food studies, sociology, anthropology and cultural studies"-- provided by the publisher
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  • 16
    ISBN: 978-1-3501-2387-8 (hb.) , 978-1-3501-2388-5 (ePDF) , 978-1-3501-2389-2 (eBook)
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 219 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Ernährung Nahrungsmittel ; Nahrungszubereitung ; Anthropologie, kulinarische ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: In the past decade, superfoods have taken US and European grocery stores by storm. Novel commodities like quinoa and moringa, along with familiar products such as almonds and raw milk, are now called superfoods, promising to promote health and increase our energy. While consumers may find the magic of superfoods attractive, the international development sector now envisions superfoods acting as cures to political and economic problems like poverty and malnutrition. Critical Approaches to Superfoods examines the politics and culture of superfoods. It demonstrates how studying superfoods can reveal shifting concepts of nutritional authority, the complexities of intellectual property and bioprospecting, the role marketing agencies play in the agro-industrial complex, and more. The multidisciplinary contributors draw their examples from settings as diverse as South India, Peru, and California to engage with foodstuffs that include quinoa, almonds, fish meal, Rooibos Tea, kale and açaí. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I. Making foods super -- Part II. Working miracles -- Part III. Superfood trajectories -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [187]-215Enthält 10 Beiträge
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  • 17
    ISBN: 9781350006331 , 1350006335
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 215 Seiten , 24 cm
    Series Statement: Islam of the global west
    DDC: 303.48/2176701821
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    Keywords: Aḥmad K̲h̲ān̲, Sayyid Criticism and interpretation ; Islamic modernism ; East and West ; Aḥmad K̲h̲ān̲, Sayyid ; East and West ; International relations ; Islamic modernism ; Islamic countries ; Western countries ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Islamic countries Relations ; Western countries Relations ; Aḥmad Ḫān Saiyid 1817-1898 ; Islam ; Internationale Politik ; Islamische Staaten ; Westliche Welt ; Geschichte ; Gelehrter ; Modernismus ; Außenpolitik ; Arabische Staaten ; Europa ; Reformer
    Abstract: Prologue -- Introduction -- 1. The language of reform -- 2. Modernism and humanism -- 3. The meaning and end of time -- 4. The viva activa -- 5. Knowledge and wisdom -- Epilogue: Can the Muslim speak? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 194-203. - Index
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    London : Bloomsbury Academic
    ISBN: 9781350081901
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 244 Seiten
    DDC: 707.4
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    Keywords: Ethnologie ; Museumspolitik ; Museumskunde ; Kurator ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
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  • 19
    ISBN: 9781350088108
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 190 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Art, anthropology, and contested heritage
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Art, anthropology, and contested heritage
    DDC: 701/.03
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    Keywords: Traces (Project) ; Europäische Union ; Refugees as artists ; Arts and society Case studies ; Art and anthropology Case studies ; Ethnology Case studies ; Cultural property ; Group identity ; Kulturpolitik ; Kultur ; Internationale Kooperation ; Aktionsplan ; Förderung ; Unterstützung ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Kulturerbe ; Kulturanthropologie ; Mitgliedsstaaten ; Forschung ; Interdisziplinarität ; European Union countries Cultural policy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europa ; Außereuropäische Kunst ; Kulturelle Identität ; Kolonialismus ; Völkermord ; Kunstraub ; Museum ; Ausstellung ; Wiedergutmachung ; Geschichte 1800-2020
    Abstract: Working with TRACES / Arnd Schneider -- The scattered colonial body : serendipity and neglected heritage in the heart of Rome / Arnd Schneider -- The palm, the couscous, the face / Leone Contini -- Research on research on research : on reflexive relationality / Matei Bellu -- A discussion between Razvan Anton and Julie Dawson, CCP1 in media, Romania / Razvan Anton, Julie Dawson, and Matei Bellu -- An ethnography of process : following the realization of the Awkward Objects of Genocide project / Katarzyna Maniak -- Awkward Objects of Genocide project : difficult encounters with Holocaust folk art : hybrid record of research and exhibition planning / Roma Sendyka, Erica Lehrer, Wojciech Wilczyk, Magdalena Zych -- From something to nothing : a peculiar ethnography of a peculiar art-project / Blaž Bajic -- Casting of death / Domestic Research Society -- Dead images : multivocal engagements with human remains / Aglaja Kempinski -- Disposing of dead images : reflections on contentious heritage as toxic waste / John Harries with Tal Alder and Aglaja Kempinski -- Participatory approaches to places of unresolved heritage : working with the communities of Long Kesh/Maze / Laura McAtackney -- Dispersed presence : Long Kesh/Maze prison, its artefacts as catalysts of testimony / Martin Krenn, Aisling O'Beirn.
    Abstract: "This book presents innovative and creative ethnographic perspectives on the intersection between art, anthropology, and contested cultural heritage resulting from ethnographic and artistic research by the TRACES project (an interdisciplinary research project funded by the EU's Horizon 2020 programme involving a collaboration between institutional partners in 11 European countries). The case studies in this volume critically assess and evaluate how and in which arrangements artistic/aesthetic methods and creative everyday practices contribute to strengthening communities both culturally and economically. They also explore the extent to which these methods emphasize minority voices and ultimately set in motion a process of reflexive Europeanisation from below which unfolds within Europe and beyond its borders. At the heart of these ethnographic case studies is the development of a new way of transmitting contentious cultural heritage, which responds to the present situation in Europe of unstable political conditions and a sense of Europe in crisis. With chapters looking at difficult art exhibitions on colonialism, death masks, Holocaust memorials and skull collections, the contributors articulate a response to the crisis in current economic-political conditions in Europe and advances brand new theoretical groundwork on the configuration of a renewed European identity. Through combining studies of heritage within museums, this volume will appeal to students and scholars of anthropology, heritage and museum studies, and visual culture"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 20
    ISBN: 9781788315203
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 235 Seiten , 24 cm
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Leonard, Douglas W. Anthropology, colonial policy and the decline of French empire in Africa
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    Keywords: Kolonialismus ; Ethnologie ; Eurozentrismus ; Frankreich ; Afrika ; Frankreich ; Afrika ; Kolonialismus ; Ethnologie ; Eurozentrismus
    Abstract: Conceived as both a vehicle to national prestige and as a civilizing mission, the second French colonial empire (1830-1962) challenged soldiers, scholars, and administrators to understand societies radically different from their own. The resultant networks of anthropological inquiry, however, did not have this effect. Rather, they opened pathways to political and intellectual independence framed in the language of social science, and in the process upended the colonial political system and reshaped the nature of human inquiry in France. While still unequal, French colonial rule in Africa revealed the durability and strength of non-European modes of thought. In this influential new study, historian Douglas W. Leonard examines the political and intellectual repercussions of French efforts to understand and to dominate colonial Africa through the use of anthropology. From General Louis Faidherbe in the 1840s to politician Jacques Soustelle and sociologist Pierre Bourdieu in the 1950s, these French thinkers sowed the seeds of colonial destruction
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  • 21
    Language: German
    Pages: 240 S.
    Keywords: Deskribierung zurückgestellt
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